The End of Southern History?

Integrating the Modern South and the Nation

Conference hosted by Emory University

March 23-24, 2006

Emory Conference Center

http://www.EmoryConferenceCenter.com/

(1615 Clifton Rd., 404-712-6000)

Registration fees for non-participants = $93/day (includes lunch, refreshments, parking)

Pre-registration by March 20 is mandatory. No same-day registration is allowed.

Please contact Joe Crespino (jcrespi@emory.edu).

Thurs. March 23

8:00 a.m.                     Opening Remarks: Matt Lassiter

8:15-10:00 a.m.           Panel #1: Political Economy and the Cold Warfare State

1. James Sparrow (University of Chicago)— “A Nation in Motion, from Welfare to Warfare: Regional Reconfiguration and the Nationalization of Political Culture, 1933-53”

2. Kari Frederickson (University of Alabama)—“The Cold War at the Grassroots: The South and the National Security State”

Comment: Douglas Flamming (Georgia Institute of Technology)

10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Panel #2: The “Southern Problem” and the Fate of Postwar Liberalism

1. Nancy MacLean (Northwestern University)—“Turning Neo-Confederacy against the New Deal: The Regional Imaginary of the Modern American Right”

2. Doug Smith (Occidental College)—“One-Person, One-Vote: Political Reapportionment and the End of Southern Exceptionalism.”

Comment: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

1:00-2:45 p.m.             Panel #3: Regional Sources of National Identity

1. Matt Lassiter (University of Michigan)—“De Facto/De Jure Segregation: The Strange Career of a National Myth”

2. Heather Thompson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), “Blinded by a ‘Barbaric’ South: Prison Horrors, Inmate Abuse and the Ironic History of Penal Reform in the Postwar United States”

Comment: Jane Dailey (Johns Hopkins University)

3:00-4:00 p.m.             Thursday Keynote: President Jimmy Carter (Dobbs University Center Ballroom, Emory University). Introduction: Earl Lewis

Fri. March 24

9:00-10:45 a.m.           Panel #4: The Changing Faces of Conservatism

1. Joseph Crespino (Emory University)—“Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region and Nation in the Historical Imagination”

2. Kevin Kruse (Princeton University)—“God at the Grassroots: The Sunbelt Origins of the Religious Right”

Comment: James Cobb (University of Georgia)

11:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Panel #5: Migrants and Immigrants in the Latest New South

1. Andrew Wiese (San Diego State University)—“African American Suburbanization and Regionalism in the Modern South”

2. Mary Odem (Emory University)—“Global Lives, Local Struggles:  Latin American Immigrants in the Urban and Suburban South”

Comment: Charles Payne (Duke University)

1:45-3:30 p.m.             Panel #6: Mass Culture and the Imagination of the South

1. Grace Hale (University of Virginia)—“The Romance of Rebellion: The Folk Music Revival and the Civil Rights Movement”

2. Allison Graham (University of Memphis)—“Red Necks, White Sheets, Blue Movies: The Persistence of the South in the Political Imagination”

Comment: Bryant Simon (Temple University)

4:00-5:30 p.m.                        Friday Keynote: John Egerton (White Hall, Room 205, Emory University). Introduction: Joseph Crespino